Platform Technical Director

IQVIA Translations- Create the world’s best life sciences translation company.

IQVIA invites you to join our new, specialised Life Science translation team, IQVIA Translation Services (ITS). This is a unique opportunity to be a part of our ground-breaking start-up business, influencing processes and strategy from the outset and seeing the results of your input. You will be a part of a global team with exciting long-term career opportunities. So, if you have an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for Languages, this could be the role for you.

The Role

As Platform Technical Director (or Associate Director, dependent on experience), you will be a key member of the Translations Innovation Team. You will be responsible for providing solution architecture support for innovative technology approaches to solve our clients' language challenges. You will be an individual contributor delivering expert technology consultation and creative problem solving to bridge between strategic and tactical considerations. The primary goal is to identify and implement innovative solutions, driving efficiencies in the delivery of our business and elevating ITS as a preferred technology partner.

Leveraging a combination of strong business and technical acumen, you will work cross functionally and collaboratively to understand clients' needs, conceptualize multiple solutions options, devise formal system architecture requirements in alignment with the business vision, and collaborate with IT teams on the successful implementation of technology solutions. Your entrepreneurial spirit and customer-centric focus will enable you think outside the box to solve familiar localization challenges in new ways to create efficient, scalable and robust user-friendly solutions.

While this is not a primarily hands-on software engineering role, a strong engineering foundation and technical skillset is critical for success. You will work in lockstep with product and business team members to evaluate potential solution paths as well as supporting technical architects and engineers throughout the software development life cycle.

The ideal candidate is an experienced solutions architect with a strong engineering background and experience in the localization industry. We seek individuals who have experience working in large organizations while maintaining a passion for agility and creativity. If you are an accomplished solutions architect with experience in the localization industry, this role will allow you to work creatively to revolutionize the life sciences translations industry.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Conceptualize, develop, and guide implementation of solutions architectures in alignment with business strategy and solution vision
• Collaborate with ITS operations and technology teams to formulate and compare solution alternatives across business and technical considerations
• Design and maintain an exceptional platform that positions ITS with better speed, accuracy, security and value relative to our competitors
• Define high level design and architecture of technical platform, applying best practices to ensure satisfaction of non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, security, reliability, and availability
• Work with technical architects, engineering team members, and suppliers to iteratively develop and deliver scalable end-to-end solutions
• Define complex requirements for technical infrastructure, information systems, and APIs to provide flexible solutions that enable rapid incremental value delivery with new technologies and optimize usage of existing technologies as appropriate
• Research current and emerging tools, techniques, and technologies to stay apprised of industry best practices for product and platform architectures
• Proactively identify and propose solutions for business-impacting technical challenges
• Stay apprised of enterprise architecture standards and represent ITS on enterprise matters

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:

• Ten (10) years of software product development and delivery, with at least five (5) years focused on solution architecture design, evaluation, and implementation
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field
• Experience within the localization industry and strong knowledge of translation management systems (TMS) solutions, including workflow management, translation memory management, and machine translation
• Experience in a senior individual contributor technical role such as senior engineer, staff engineer, or principal engineer
• Demonstrable knowledge of software engineering practices across full software development life cycle (SDLC), including rapid prototyping, iterative development, continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD), cloud architecture and release management
• Hands-on experience with large-scale complex service-oriented architectures requiring systems integrations and configurations
• Ability to learn and understand the enterprise and portfolio level architectures and contribute to the evolution in a performant, scalable fashion
• Ability to work in close collaboration with operations and technology teams to support planning, design and implementation of technical solutions
• Ability to synthesize business and complex technical requirements in a cohesive manner
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Git, Jira, project tracking tools
• Experience working in a collaborative Agile environment

Additional preferred qualifications

Although not formally required, you will benefit from having some of the following:

• Prior experience with blockchain technologies
• Prior experience building systems involving regulated data
• Prior experience in a medium to large consulting organization
• Prior experience with containerization and container orchestration
• Knowledge of clinical domain and relevant compliance requirements
• Prior experience in product management or business analysis

At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 70,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.